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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Carers want support, not sympathy
In one of the biggest scandals of our age, far too many carers are left forgotten and trapped in poverty, writes BERNADETTE HORTON
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
For decades carers have been lauded but not heard, praised but not rewarded.
Successive governments have hailed carers as heroes. Party leaders and MPs have eagerly turned up for photoshoots with world-wearied carers and proceeded to trot out the lines of “unsung heroes” “saving the country millions in care costs.”
But then comes the inevitable walk-away. Photo-op done, issue forgotten about.
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